[KBibTeX] [Bug 364806] Accents incorrectly saved in LaTeX encoding mode

[Fred Labrosse via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364806

--- Comment #4 from Fred Labrosse  ---
Seems to work now.  Thanks.

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[KBibTeX] [Bug 364806] Accents incorrectly saved in LaTeX encoding mode

[Thomas Fischer via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364806

Thomas Fischer  changed:

   What|Removed |Added

 Resolution|WORKSFORME  |FIXED
 Status|NEEDSINFO   |RESOLVED
  Latest Commit||8ba577fc0759de8e3c998219031
   ||cfd394eb25022

--- Comment #3 from Thomas Fischer  ---
(In reply to Fred Labrosse from comment #2)
> It took me a while, but I finally found out what the problem was.  The
> problem is when the double dot (or whatever it's name is) accent is used, as
> in \"u.  This needs to be saved as {\"u} to make sure the quote is not
> parsed as a closing quote if this is the delimiter that is used.  Note that
> \"{u} does not work in that case.
Ok, thanks for the example. I think I fixed the problem in commit
8ba577fc0759de8e3c [1]. The fix got a little bit larger, as your link to Stack
Exchange revealed some other issues, such as with {\c c}, which should be fixed
as well.
There is a new file, testset/bib/bug364806.bib, which contains the examples
from this Stack Exchange posting.
Please test and confirm.

[1]
http://commits.kde.org/clones/kbibtex/thomasfischer/kbibtex/8ba577fc0759de8e3c998219031cfd394eb25022

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[KBibTeX] [Bug 364806] Accents incorrectly saved in LaTeX encoding mode

[Fred Labrosse via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364806

--- Comment #2 from Fred Labrosse  ---
It took me a while, but I finally found out what the problem was.  The problem
is when the double dot (or whatever it's name is) accent is used, as in \"u. 
This needs to be saved as {\"u} to make sure the quote is not parsed as a
closing quote if this is the delimiter that is used.  Note that \"{u} does not
work in that case.

So yes, your saving is correct for normal accents, but not for the double dot
accent.  I just saved my bibfile and it produced:

@inproceedings{AF03,
address = "Aberystwyth, UK",
author = "Aloimonos, Yannis and Ferm\"{u}ller, Cornelia",
booktitle = pbimvta,
pages = "3--23",
title = "Action Representations",
year = 2003
}

and this does not work.  For consistency reasons, I tend to type them all the
same (which is why I couldn't remember what the problem was).

See
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/57743/how-to-write-ä-and-other-umlauts-and-accented-letters-in-bibliography
for more details.

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[KBibTeX] [Bug 364806] Accents incorrectly saved in LaTeX encoding mode

[Thomas Fischer via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364806

Thomas Fischer  changed:

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 Resolution|--- |WORKSFORME
 Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEEDSINFO

--- Comment #1 from Thomas Fischer  ---
(In reply to Fred Labrosse from comment #0)
> Accents are not correctly saved, I think, when LaTeX encoding is used.  Fro
> example, the following is saved for an acute accent on 'e':
> \'{e}
> when it should be:
> {\'e}
Both are valid expressions that generate 'é'.

> The sequence "{e}" does nothing in LaTeX so "\'{e}" is the same as "\'e". 
In this specific case, yes.

> The brackets however need to surround the whole construct, as in "{\'e}" to
> protect it.
That is true.

As both forms are valid, it is essentially taste which of the two forms you
prefer. Unless you can provide me with a counter example, where \'{X} breaks
but {\'X} works.

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